Sea of clouds - Tenerife

A timelapse movie I shot while on holidays on the beautiful island of Tenerife. This was the first time I was there as a photographer so most of the time I was looking up the good locations to shoot from. Next time I'll be a lot smarter! :)

The main theme is the mountain of Teide and the sea of clouds (Mar de nubes) flowing beneath it, filmed from 2nd to 7th of November, 2011. Teide is Spain's highest mountain and the highest volcano of Europe with its 3718 meters. The national park around it (Las Canadas) looks really like the Moon with lots of freshly formed rocks (last eruption was in 1909).

It's not a secret that the works of Daniel López and Terje Sorgjerd had a huge influence on me, in fact, I made the decision of the Canary Island trip after watching their videos of Tenerife!

It has to be told that two scenes were not recorded from Tenerife but from Roque de los Muchachos on the neighbouring island La Palma: the very first and the one starting from 01:07.

For those interested in the technical part:
I was shooting with Canon 550D and 1000D, used Lightroom for photo syncing and developing, Virtualdub for deflickering and After Effects for zooming/panning and overall cutting. Not any part of the video was shot with HDR technique, although most cloud-flowing scenes (like at 00:20) are heavily tone-mapped in LR to bring out details both in the shadows and highlights.

All footages are available in Full HD, if you'd like to use them, or have question please contact me at: mayermiklos.foto at gmail.com